The PM announces an end to restrictions seemingly because he’s tired of the whole damn thing
With so much leaking and briefing, there’s very little suspense left in a Downing Street announcement, save whether or not their lecterns are still standing. I suppose there’s always a chance somebody will get divorced live on air.
So, we already knew what so-called “Freedom Day” would entail, and we already knew that, if it came, it would be 19 July, unless it was postponed to some other day. Johnson promised the removal of all legal limits: on the numbers of people at sporting events and theatres, at gatherings, and on which businesses would be allowed to open. No face masks, no social distancing, no Covid certificates, no more instructing people to work from home. How well it’s going to play instructing them to come back to the office is another matter, but the beauty of that is that it’s not his problem.
